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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

Asking people of color how they will ✨improve and advocate for diversity✨ at predominantly white programs and institutions is like if my landlord was like "how do u plan to improve living conditions in your building"… like no that is on you

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

A man spit at me and another woman on the subway platform today. I'm mostly in shock rn, and also struggling with the urge to dismiss what happened, to tell myself that it was just the kind of thing that happens every day in NYC

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@ginathechung

1 year

@isle_mcelroy Yessss this!! Also the solidarity of everyone warning one another not to sit in the one wet seat in the car!!

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@ginathechung

2 years

I'm physically fine. But it was a frightening (not to mention gross) thing to have happen during what is an already pretty scary time for so many of us, especially Asian women

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

I won a Pushcart Prize!!!! Thank you so much @garson_scott and @Wigleaf for publishing and nominating my piece about a horny, hungry praying mantis and her appetites 🥰

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

Feels fitting that today I am going to support @RedCanarySong for the #8LivesVigil in Washington Square Park, in honor of the eight lives lost in last year's Atlanta spa shootings. There is so much to grieve right now.

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

NEWS!!! My novel SEA CHANGE and my short story collection GREEN FROG will be published in 2023 by @VintageAnchor @penguinrandom 🐙🐸 I’m so so thrilled to be working with the fabulous @caitlinlanduyt and endlessly grateful to my wonderful agent @dani_bukie @SterlingLordLit ❤️

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

My therapist told me recently I need to find ways to have fun and be creative that aren't necessarily connected to writing, to give my writing brain time to unwind -- so what are things yall like to do? How does fun happen (lol)

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

Turns out writing in Garamond really does help?? I used to be a solid TNR-only girl but I might be changing my mind

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

Today marks the birth of my debut novel, SEA CHANGE ( @VintageAnchor ) which I’m also overjoyed to announce is the @BNBuzz Discover Pick for April!! 🐙

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@ginathechung

1 year

Incredibly thrilled to say that GREEN FROG, my second book and my first collection of short stories, is done / off to production!!!!! Coming to you sometime in 2024, with a whole new cast of characters, including even more animals and some magic 💚

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@ginathechung

7 months

It's my birthday today, and coincidentally I have a new story out in dream mag @onestorymag , called "The Arrow"! It's about motherhood, daughterhood, aura machines, and how to forgive yourself and others

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

The rumors are true... I've got a new gig! I'm so thrilled to be joining the @kundimanforever team as Programs Manager. Grateful and excited to be working with this wonderful team and the larger Kundiman community! 💫

Kundiman

@kundimanforever

2 years

We're excited to welcome these new staff members & interns to the Kundiman team! ⭐ New staff include: Shirley Cai as Communications Manager, Gina Chung as Programs Manager, Misha Ponnuraju as Finance, Operations, & Grants Assistant, and Shan Rao as Development Associate.

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

11 months

SEA CHANGE IS ON THE @Center4Fiction LONGLIST I AM CRY!!!!!! 💕💕💕 Beyond honored to have my book alongside so much brilliance and beauty. Congratulations to all of my fellow longlisters, and endless thanks to the Center for Fiction for all their support of debut writers 🎉🎉🎉

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 months

It’s pub day for my second book, my debut short story collection GREEN FROG ( @VintageAnchor )!!! Available now wherever you get books 💚

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@ginathechung

3 years

Coffee tastes different when you’re drinking it out of a mug printed with the Publishers Marketplace announcement for your two book deal from your beautiful friends @vanjchan @katiejdevine @kate_tooley 😭🥲❤️

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

How do people write in cafes?? I just tried this and all I did was journal about how self-conscious I felt while eavesdropping

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

I am over all the moons to announce that I'm a 2021-22 @Center4Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow!!! Can't wait to be part of this stunning cohort. What an honor to be among such absolute stars ✨✨

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

Today marks the beginning of a dream I’ve had ever since the day I learned that my novel would become a book: SEA CHANGE is going to be translated and published in Korean, by 복복서가 (Bokbokseoga) 🥹♥️

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

Screaming, crying, etc. bc my finished copies of SEA CHANGE (out in just ten days in 3/28 from @VintageAnchor !!!) are heeeeeere and they’re so beautiful 😭🥲❤️ Also ✨exclusive reveal✨of the epigraph, featuring gorgeous poetry from the incredible @haolun1 !!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

I'm overwhelmed with joy to announce that I now have literary representation -- from none other than the brilliant and wonderful @dani_bukie of @SterlingLordLit . Endlessly grateful and incredibly excited for what's ahead ✨✨✨

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

My story “Mantis,” which was originally published in the fantastic @Wigleaf , is now in the 2023 Pushcart Prize anthology! An absolute dream to share space in print with so many literary idols and inspirations, including @Marcelisima1

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

🐙 Swimming to a bookstore near you on April 11, 2023, here's the cover for my novel SEA CHANGE! 🐙 Shoutouts to the immensely talented Anabeth Bostrup and Mark Abrams for illustrating and designing the cover of my dreams. You can preorder here now!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

5 months

YALL WE WON AN AWARD!!!!! Sea Change is the @ala_apala 's Adult Fiction Honor and I couldn't be more excited 🥹 Congratulations to all the winners & honorees, including @JanikaOza , @SFdirewolf , and @dalitdiva , whose books I am so honored to be alongside!!!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

11 months

🐸 ✨Cover reveal alert ✨🐸 My short story collection, GREEN FROG, is coming March 12, 2024 from @VintageAnchor !!! Endless thanks to the brilliant Maddie Partner for designing this dream of a cover. Preorders available now 💚

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

4 years

@vanjchan omfg

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@ginathechung

3 years

I’ve got a new story in @pleiadesmag about gossipy Korean church ladies! Inspired by the ahjummas I knew growing up, who were always looking out for (and talking about lol) everyone else. Honored and thrilled to be in this issue with so many writers I admire.

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

4 years

I have been pinching myself since I got this news: yesterday I got an acceptance from an absolute DREAM journal, @Gulf_Coast !!! Thank you so much @keddymilligan for saying yes to my story!! I still can't quite believe it's real ahhhhh. My heart is beating so fast, whew 💕💕

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

9 months

Very excited to say that some supercool things are coming for my story collection GREEN FROG ( @VintageAnchor ) -- one of the stories will be published in @onestorymag and another will be published in @BOMBmagazine !!! Two dream mags💚💚 I'm stoked to share them with yall soon ✨✨

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

4 years

Extremely jazzed to say that a piece of mine has been accepted by @Wigleaf !! Wigleaf was one of the first flash journals that I ever encountered as a new writer, and it's been a long-term goal of mine to have a piece published with them 💖 Such a huge huge honor ahhhh

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

8 months

Extremely honored & incredibly shook 🥹💐 Congrats to all the contributors in this beautiful edition of Best American Short Stories edited by the incredible @minjinlee11 , and congrats to all my fellow distinguished stories mentions!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

My baby SEA CHANGE ( @VintageAnchor ) lives in galley form now, and her official bday is April 11, 2023 (yes, she is an Aries, a fire sign just like her mama)! I’d love if you could preorder, add on Goodreads, or request a copy at your local library :)

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

For @lithub , I wrote my first-ever craft essay on why I love writing about animals, and what I think they can teach us about writing fiction and our own stories 🐙

Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

There’s a short essay I love by the late writer Brian Doyle called “Joyas Voladoras” in which he examines various animal hearts to talk about the emotional capacity of the human heart. “No living b…

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

11 months

The fallout from the cancellation of the 2023 Asian American Literary Festival by @smithsonian leadership is immense. Please read our thread here to learn more about the devastating impact this has had on our communities.

Kundiman

@kundimanforever

11 months

Over $99,000 was invested in the participation of writers from Aotearoa & Australia in the AALF, as reported by @TheSpinoffTV . The abrupt cancellation by the @smithsonian is a devastating loss to the cross-cultural connections that could've been forged.

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

7 months

SEA CHANGE is an @ElectricLit Best Novel of 2023!!!! :') Thank you thank you thank you, and cheers to all the incredible books and authors on this list!! 🥂🎉

Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2023 - Electric Literature

Emma Cline, Jen Beagin, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hilary Leichter, and Jennifer Baker are among the year's most loved

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

So... my contributor copies of @kenyonreview ’s latest issue are here and I am simply cry. I’ve always felt drawn to the legend of kumiho / 구미호 (Korean fox spirits) and to now have a story out about them in THE Kenyon Review is just... what is happening 😭❤️🦊

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

My therapist told me today she is reading my book and that I am "very creative and talented," have I won therapy now???! 🥲

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

Very much screaming over my @Gulf_Coast contributor copies ❤️ So so so excited and grateful that my short story “Honey and Sun” about girlhood and monsoon season in Korea and butterflies gets to be here

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 months

WOKE UP TO A RAVE FOR GREEN FROG IN @NPR TODAY!! Thank you so much @Gabino_Iglesias for this incredible review: "Wildly entertaining, wonderfully diverse, and always delivered with a superb understanding of pacing and economy of language" 💚💚

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

JUST! ONE! MONTH! till SEA CHANGE ( @VintageAnchor ) hits stores and shelves on 3/28!! If you can, pls preorder and/or add on Goodreads :)

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 months

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the faculty at the low-residency @SolsticeMFA program at Lasell University as an instructor in fiction, beginning in 2025!! Will also be there this summer as a guest instructor :)

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 months

On this day, one year ago, my debut novel SEA CHANGE came into the world and forever changed my life!!!! If you read, bought, recommended, borrowed, reviewed, posted, or helped usher in my first book child's entry into the world in any way -- thank you thank you thank you 🐙💙

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

Having an extremely glowy and lovely time @kenyonreview Summer Writers Workshops this week. I have the extreme honor of being @AlexKleeman ’s fellow this summer and I am deeply excited about all of the incredible writing coming out of this conference!!!!!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

SEA CHANGE (out 3/28 from @VintageAnchor !) is one of the NYT's 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring !!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

4 months

Finished copies of GREEN FROG are now in!!!!! 🐸 Preorder to get your copy by March 12 💫

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

Ok I'm gonna do a Year in Writing thread for myself, because 1 year ago I had never published anything and 2 years ago I was about ready to give up on writing, and one of the things I've learned from this year is that we gotta celebrate the good stuff when it happens 🍾🎉 (1/10)

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

Oh to be a capybara in an annual yuzu hot bath

Spoon & Tamago

@Johnny_suputama

3 years

Ahead of the winter solstice tomorrow, the capybara of Nasu Oukoku Zoo took their annual yuzu hot bath

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@ginathechung

4 months

My debut short story collection GREEN FROG ( @VintageAnchor ) is hopping into stores on March 12! Come help me celebrate my amphibian Pisces baby at one or more of my events in NYC, CT, Louisiana, and NJ! 🐸

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

Got an acceptance from @IdahoReview yesterday for my first-ever sci-fi(ish) story ❤️ 🤖 She’s foraying into other genres!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 months

I have a story up on @ElectricLit today from GREEN FROG (which comes out 2MRW!!!). It's about memory, a slightly otherworldly spa, and the lengths we'll go to keep from being haunted. Thank you so much to @jadessong , author of the brilliant CHLORINE, for recommending this one 💜

Electric Literature

@ElectricLit

3 months

In this week’s Recommended Reading, Jade Song ( @jadessong ) recommends “Presence” from Gina Chung’s ( @ginathechung ) GREEN FROG, in which a woman erases her painful memories, but is stalked by something she calls “the presence” as a result.

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

4 years

OMG 💙💙 My piece was the first runner-up in the @LAReview contest!!! Thank you so much to the Review and the judges and so so many congratulations to all the winners and runners-up!!! My heart is singing 💕💕

Los Angeles Review

@LAReview

4 years

🎊 We're happy to announce An Yu as this year's winner of the LAR Award for Short Fiction! Her piece, "Marseille in Light," will be made available to read at LAR online soon and will also be published in our 24th best-of print issue, set to be released in 2021 🎊

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@ginathechung

11 months

It’s proofs time for the short story collection 🥹🐸💚 Legit got chills when I opened up this ms to see the “Also By” page — just a few years ago I despaired of ever having anything published, and now I get to have a second book coming out into the world, what is my life

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

What are your favorite craft essays, friends? Trying to teach myself how to write one!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

11 months

An important thread on the abrupt and deeply violent cancelation of the Asian American Literary Festival by @smithsonian leadership. Please read and share the open letter:

Kundiman

@kundimanforever

11 months

On July 5th the Asian American Literature Festival was suddenly canceled by @smithsonian leadership, just weeks in advance. Without explanation, they erased months of planning work and canceled a unique and historically significant event.

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

My heart is singing and I am crying; Everything Everywhere All At Once had me sobbing so hard in the theater when I saw it, my mask got soggy. Congratulations to all of us, Asian family <3

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

10 months

If you think about it, writing a novel is essentially like doing one very long bit

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

11 months

Got some fun headshots taken at the Kundiman Retreat by the very talented @jessxsnow -- I look like a slightly pissed off, plucky small town detective who solves murders in the 90s and I'm not mad about it

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

My debut novel SEA CHANGE and my story collection GREEN FROG will be published in the UK & commonwealth by @picadorbooks !! Endless thanks to @anniemedz and @m_constantinoux for giving my books such a perfect home and Rachel Clements my agent in the UK!!

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

2 years

"A whip-smart, octopus-loving narrator searches for hope in deep sea and distant space, tackling loneliness, love and loss along the way." @picadorbooks has swooped for the “enchanting” debut novel and short story collection from @ginathechung Read here:

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@ginathechung

2 years

@GoAwayWithJae Yes, the way we're taught to minimize our own pain and suffering because it's "easier" than dealing with it in the moment ;__; Thank you, you as well <3

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@ginathechung

1 year

Was part of the dreamiest media lunch today with @VintageAnchor , alongside incredible authors @Brendan_slocumb , @dan_hornsby , Elizabeth Castellano, and @CharlotteVass17 ! Also, did I mention that sharktinis, a cocktail I invented for SEA CHANGE, was our signature drink??

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@ginathechung

7 months

Thank you so much to @debutiful for naming Sea Change as one of their Best Debut Books of 2023!!!!! Love to be on here with so many writers I admire ❤️❤️🥳🥳

DEBUTIFUL

@debutiful

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The Best Debut Books of 2023 has everything from murderous sorority girls to sexy sea creatures. Ft. @ruthmadievsky , @nativemindstate , @ShandersWrites , @mcrane_12 , @ginathechung , @jetvgc , @NK_Adjei , @megankakimoto , @_Kelsey_Norris_ , & more!

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@ginathechung

1 year

NEVER GETTING OVER THIS 🥲❤️ Thank you so so so much to @QianJulieWang for shouting out SEA CHANGE ( @VintageAnchor ) on @TODAYshow this AM!! Overjoyed to be next to @rachelhengqp and @CAMONGHNE ❤️❤️ See all of Qian Julie and @IsaacFitzgerald 's picks here!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

1 year

Recent news and praise for my novel 🥲💕 Thanks so much to the @nytimes , @nytimesbooks , @KateDwyer , @The_Millions , @lithub , @prepartynap , @zibbyowens , and @debutiful for shouting out SEA CHANGE (out in just TWO WEEKS on 3/28 from @VintageAnchor !)

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@ginathechung

2 years

Wild to me that @splitlipthemag gave me one of my first short story acceptances two years ago and now I’m having a collection come out titled after this story in 2024 🥲😭🐸 Love being part of the Split Lip family!!

Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag

2 years

"Umma used to call me a green frog because, she said, she could never get me to listen to anything she said or do anything she asked." Revisit the story GREEN FROG by @ginathechung in our archives:

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@ginathechung

4 years

I have a piece up in the amazing @JellyfishReview today about winter beaches, impromptu road trips, and fathers and daughters. Check it out here 🧡

Beach Day by Gina Chung

Beach Day One clear winter’s day in your childhood, it was your father, not your mother, who picked you up from school. “Where’s Mom?” you said. “She’s visiting family,” he said. And then he said, …

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@ginathechung

10 months

No one burns you like a sibling can; today my sister referred to me as “chill-passing” 💀

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@ginathechung

4 years

She is wobbly & ROUGH & will need to be rewritten / cut 2349238 more times, but... v early this AM, I finished the last chapters of my first novel, towards my @NewSchoolWrites thesis. 75k words in 3 months and who knows how many of them will stay, but I'm still celebrating 🥳

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@ginathechung

1 year

An incredible honor and joy to be in convo with my dear friend, the amazing @jinwoochong tonight 🥹 Thank you to Jinwoo for your brilliance and warmth, to @yuandmebooks for having us, and to everyone who came out to watch us talk about FLUX and SEA CHANGE 💛💙

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@ginathechung

4 years

@MosesNYC I noninate specifically the one long tunnel in Port Authority when you have to go from the ACE to the 7 and NQRW lines and there is a table at the end where someone is screaming about hell 💀

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@ginathechung

1 year

So surreal and exciting to see the UK galleys of SEA CHANGE (out in the UK from @picadorbooks !) starting to move through the world!!

Years Of Reading Selfishly

@yearsofreading

1 year

Thank you to @bookbreakuk for my copy of #SeaChange by @ginathechung from @picadorbooks It’s out in August, and is the story of Ro, who, when her world implodes, is helped through it all by Dolores, her Pacific Octopus. Honestly, this could not be any more my kind of novel!

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@ginathechung

1 year

My writer friends and I joke a lot about how arduous and “inefficient” writing can be, but it is truly the messiness that makes it rewarding. The stops and starts, the searching, the pondering — it’s all part of the deeply joyful and serious play/work of writing

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1 year

I hope more writers will, in the current conditions, be open about the beautiful irrationality at the heart of writing. You can box it in by talking about word counts and whatnot, but at the heart is a raging fire and *being lost* and a deep disrespect for cordial efficiency.

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@ginathechung

6 months

Yall, first review for Green Frog is in, from @PublishersWkly and I couldn't be more thrilled!! They called it "dynamic," among many other things, and said, "Chung’s talents are on full display in these contemplative tales." 🥹✨✨

Green Frog: And Other Stories by Gina Chung

Chung’s dynamic collection (after the novel Sea Change) employs various genres and styles to illuminate her Korean American char...

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@ginathechung

1 year

Just ONE MORE DAY till SEA CHANGE is born! 👁️👄👁️I'll be doing events in April with @Frances_H_Cha at @koreasociety , Weike Wang at @booksaremagicbk , @BNBuzz Carroll Gardens, @ruthbuchwald 's incredible Lactose Intolerant Reading Series, and @IthacaCollege 's New Voices Fest (1/2)

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@ginathechung

3 years

Friends, I have a short essay (about 1200 words) on my relationship to silence & shame and my experiences w/anti-Asian racism. As a primarily fiction writer / nonfiction newbie, would welcome any recs you might have for lit outlets that take personal essays? <3

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@ginathechung

7 months

Honored & thrilled to have a new piece in @BOMBmagazine 's new Winter 2024 issue -- it's called "Names for Fireflies" and it'll be included in Green Frog, my forthcoming story collection from @VintageAnchor 🐸✨

BOMB Magazine

@BOMBmagazine

7 months

BOMB's Winter 2024 Issue is here—along with our new limited-edition tote bag! Featuring a quote by Caryl Phillips, BOMB’s XL tote includes a gusset and two handle sizes to fit everything you need. Available now with our holiday package:

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@ginathechung

4 months

Just witnessed a small altercation on the train between two ppl where one called the other “an asshole,” then the person left behind muttered to themselves “I might be an asshole, but you’re a whole ass!” — poetry is everywhere 🥹

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@ginathechung

3 years

I have a story about bats, dysfunctional families, and grief in the newest @FrictionSeries Legacy issue and my copies just came and oh my goodness, they are so gorgeous and I can’t stop looking at them ❤️

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@ginathechung

6 months

This @ElectricLit list, a beautiful labor of love and care from @rokwon , always ends up informing my TBR and end-of-year faves lists, and I'm so honored for GREEN FROG to be here 💚

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@ginathechung

1 year

Now this is my kind of security question

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@ginathechung

7 months

✨🐸 Deeply thrilled and grateful to be able to share these gorgeous early blurbs for GREEN FROG (out March 12, 2024 from @VintageAnchor ) from writing heroes @Morgan_J_Talty , Yoon Choi, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and @allegra_hyde 🐸✨

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@ginathechung

10 months

So much of adulthood is just giving yourself deadlines to do things by and then... not doing them and then being like, "Okay, how about tomorrow" and then ad infinitum until you either finally get it done or you find peace in never doing it

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@ginathechung

2 years

New author photo???

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@ginathechung

2 months

Present tense?? More like give me a present or I'll get tense!!!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 months

Thank you to @lithub for publishing this essay on what we can learn from folklore as we think about crafting fiction and character arcs, as well as how the Korean fable of the green frog influenced my writing and my debut short story collection!

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@lithub

3 months

“Folktales are powerful because they are how many of us first experience stories.” @ginathechung on drawing inspiration from Korean folktales.

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@ginathechung

2 years

@jeanho Omg, literally shadow banned 😭

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@ginathechung

1 year

WHAT A NITE!!! ✨✨ Had SO much fun talking to the incredible Weike Wang @booksaremagicbk about the process of writing SEA CHANGE, octopus influencers, female friendship, writing the surreal, and more. If you missed our convo, you can catch it here!

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

Feeling utterly scalded by so so many good lines from this Weike Wang essay on work and overwork

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

3 years

I just got proofs for my forthcoming story in the @FrictionSeries Legacy issue. This is the first print acceptance I've ever gotten for my fiction and I am EMOTIONAL seeing it all laid out and w/such beautiful artwork 💖💛 Can't wait for the world to meet her.

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@ginathechung

2 years

I'm overwhelmed by all of your messages of support and solidarity. I think one of the hardest things about experiencing racism and hate is how isolating it can be, how small it can make you feel

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@ginathechung

3 months

Will be forever grateful to @splitlipthemag for publishing the story that started it all, which then became the title story for my debut collection. Thank you thank you thank you. Also: submit your work to them. They are incredible!!! 💚💚💚

Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag

3 months

HAPPY HAPPY PUB WEEK to @ginathechung 's short story collection GREEN FROG ( @VintageAnchor ) 💚🐸💚🐸 We are so grateful to have published the title story! Read the story here: And get your copy of the book here:

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@ginathechung

1 year

I've dreamed of being on this @ElectricLit list for so long and now it's here!! Endless thanks to @rokwon for compiling this favorite of anticipated lists, a true labor of love, each year, and for including my book on it 💜Ocean creature stans rise up! 🐙

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@rokwon

1 year

hello, hi! I've assembled a list of 2023 books I'm anticipating from women of color, the year ahead looks about as alarming as usual but hey the books will be splendid 💛

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@ginathechung

3 months

So it turns out that sipping an iced coffee in the sunshine & warmth and then walking a million steps is pretty good for the olde mental health… fascinating discoveries…

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@ginathechung

1 year

Had so much fun signing books at some of my favorite NYC stores this wknd, including @yuandmebooks , @Center4Fiction , @booksaremagicbk , @greenlightbklyn , @ptknitwear , and of course, @BNUnionSqNYC , where I saw SEA CHANGE's @BNBuzz Discover sign IRL for the first time!!!

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@ginathechung

1 year

OH HI look who's one of the Buzziest Debut Novels of the New Year c/o @goodreads 👀

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@ginathechung

4 months

Dipping my toes into discourse to say that no matter where u go for an MFA (u also don't have to do one!), if ur lucky enough to meet brilliant, funny, big-hearted ppl like @vanjchan in urs, hold on to them! Writing might be solitary but literary community is forever 💕

Vanessa Chan

@vanjchan

4 months

Iowa discourse again…A reminder that I was rejected from almost every mfa program I applied to (def all the fully funded prestige ones) & managed to start, learn how to, eventually write & complete a novel at the place I ended up at, alongside top tier talent incl @ginathechung

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@ginathechung

1 year

What are your favorite films about women trying to make art / learning how to make space in their lives for their art alongside other responsibilities?

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Gina Chung 정진아

@ginathechung

2 years

When you have a Google Doc open in two separate tabs, start editing in one, see the changes in the other, and get annoyed like "who is making these edits" before you realize it's just been you all along

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@ginathechung

10 months

Can’t believe galleys for Green Frog are already here! Coming March 2024 from @VintageAnchor 🐸 Preorder now / request it from your local library if you can 💚